The defeated Fatah party maintains control of most of the Palestinian security apparatus outside Gaza.

I extend my condolences to the Fatah party and the Palestinian National Authority.

Officials of his party Fatah party have said such a move would convey that Israel-Palestinian relations had reached a new crisis.

China had also established close relations with the Fatah party as well.

In some cases, Hamas aligned itself with independents once affiliated with the secular Fatah party.

They don't work for the Palestinian Authority intelligence services, as do many in Arafat's Fatah party.

Zanoun was one of the founders of the Fatah party, and remains a member of its central committee.

Mr. Abbas's more moderate Fatah party, on the other hand, is far more likely to accept it.

The first reports on local television even cited an official of Mr. Arafat's Fatah party as saying he had seen the rocket land.

He was the head of the Fatah party in Bethlehem for many years.